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The Robert and Ann Kennedy Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$81k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What you fund
0165% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

International$169kHealth$156kHuman Services$104kAnimals$32kCivil Rights$30kPublic Benefit$14kCommunity Improvement$7kOther$272k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
$6,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$13,500
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION GREATER SOUTHEAST AFFILIATE$10,500
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA$10,000
STJUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$8,500
PEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE$8,000
FISCHER CTR FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARC$6,500
OXFAM$6,000
BOYS TOWN$5,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$5,000
UNICEF$4,000
CHARITY NAVIGATOR$1,500
CATO INSTITUTE$1,500
FLORIDA BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOYS TOWN: $5k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $2k → 7%BOYS TOWN: $5k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $2k → 7%BOYS TOWN: $5k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $2k → 7%BOYS TOWN: $5k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $2k → 7%BOYS TOWN: $5k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $2k → 7%BOYS TOWN: $5k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $2k → 7%BOYS TOWN: $5k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $2k → 7%BOYS TOWN: $5k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $2k → 7%BOYS TOWN: $5k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $2k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
NJ
NE
VA
AZ
TN
DC
AL
GA
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$783k · 18 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
0

Total granted

$783k
$0

Still filing today

83%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +98%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +33%
  • LV
    LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $73k · revenue +294%

Funded once

    Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

    04Your field

    The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

    1
    Guttmacher Institute Inc

    The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

    2
    Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

    The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

    Health
    3
    Open Markets Institute

    The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

    Education
    4
    New York University

    Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

    Education
    5
    American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

    Science & Tech
    6
    American Academy of Neurology

    The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

    Community Improvement
    7
    United States Naval Institute

    Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

    8
    Pew Research Center

    Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

    Social Science
    9
    Banner -University Medical Group

    Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

    Health
    10
    The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

    To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

    International
    11
    University of Miami

    See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

    Education
    12
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

    Education

    For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turning Point Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

    04the grantee network

    15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

    Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    4
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    15/15
    Grantees still filing
    15/15
    Grew since you first funded

    Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

    LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC — $73,000 · OtherLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN…FISCHER CTR FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARC — $57,000 · OtherFISCHER CTR FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCOXFAM — $54,000 · OtherOXFAMMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC — $40,000 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INCCLEVELAND CLINIC FLORIDA — $30,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FLORIDATURNING POINT USA INC — $18,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $133,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $36,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR U…American Heart Association Inc — $83,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Associa…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $68,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RES…+1 more — $5,000 · HealthFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $45,000 · Human ServicesFather Flanaga…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIO…Charity Navigator — $13,500 · Human ServicesCharity Naviga…Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc — $32,000 · AnimalsActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty — $30,000 · Civil RightsCATO INSTITUTE — $13,500 · Public BenefitFCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC — $7,000 · Community Improvement
    Other$272,000International$169,000Health$156,000Human Services$103,500Animals$32,000Civil Rights$30,000Public Benefit$13,500Community Improvement$7,000

    Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $133,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $83,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC — $73,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $68,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $36,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc — $32,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty — $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator — $13,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $13,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC — $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA BREAST CANCER COALITION RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
    Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

    A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

    • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
    • Who funds LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC
    • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
    • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC
    • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    • Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc
    • Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
    • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC
    • Who funds Charity Navigator
    • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE
    • Who funds FCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC
    • Who funds FLORIDA BREAST CANCER COALITION RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC

    Government reliance of your grantees

    Every dot is one organization The Robert and Ann Kennedy Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

    2024
    202122232425
    no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
    • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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